Bowling pin cleaning apparatus

Abstract

A body has bottom, side and end elements which form a liquid containing vessel. Carried by the end elements, are a pair of opposed fixtures which support a bowling pin for horizontal axial alingnment. A flexible diaphram forms one wall of a fluid containing chamber carried by a cover member, which is hingedly affixed to the body. Extending over the diaphram is a scrubbing pad which is placed in juxtaposition with the bowling pin when the cover member is in the closed position. The scrubbing pad conforms to the contour of the rotating and wetted bowling pin in response to pressure of the fluid upon the diaphram.

Having fully described and disclosed by present invention and alternately preferred embodiments thereof in such clear and concise terms as to enable those skilled in the art to understand and practice the same, the invention claimed is: 
     
       1. An apparatus for holding a bowling pin, which pin includes a generally cylindrical body having a contoured surface and normally upper and lower ends, and for holding a quantity of liquid and for cleaning said bowling pin, said apparatus comprising: (a) a body having a bottom with upstanding front and rear sides and upstanding first and second ends and having an upper peripheral edge, said bottom, sides and ends forming a liquid retaining vessel;     (b) carriage means carried by said body for supporting said bowling pin and for axially rotating said bowling pin;   (c) drive means for urging rotation of said carriage means;   (d) scrubbing means carried by said apparatus for contacting the surface of said bowling pin and conforming to the contour thereof;   (e) a cover member hingedly affixed to said body and movable between a first position extending over and spaced above said bowling pin supported by said carriage means and a second position in which said bowling pin is removable from said carriage means;   (f) a fluid containing chamber carried by said cover member;   (g) a diaphram forming a wall of said chamber and residing in juxtaposition with said bowling pin when said cover member is in said first position, said diaphram being sufficiently flexible to conform to the contoured surface in response to pressure exerted by said fluid; and   (h) scrubbing pad means extending over said diaphram for contact with the surface of said bowling pin.   
     
     
       2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said scrubbing pad means is detachably securable to said cover means. 
     
     
       3. The apparatus of claim 1, further including fluid transfer means for the entrance and removal of fluid in said chamber. 
     
     
       4. The apparatus of claim 3, further including stop means for holding said cover member substantially upright in said second position and wherein said fluid transfer means includes an air vent proximate the upper portion of said chamber when said cover member is in said second position.